Agricultural adaptation to climate change in rich and poor countries: Current modeling practice and potential for empirical contributions

Energy Economics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 562-575

  Hertel, Thomas W ^a   Lobell, David B ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Developing countries; Integrated assessment models; Investment; New technologies

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMMERCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INVESTMENTS;

ADAPTATION; ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGES; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; RISING TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEVELOPING WORLD; INVESTMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84912000940     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2014.04.014     Document Type: Article

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